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Déjà vu all over again
December 21, 2022 • Posted in Blog
By D. Joy Riley, M.D., M.A. Executive Director
The past couple of weeks have reminded me of the quote attributed to Yogi Berra, “It’s Deja Vu All Over Again.”
Twenty-five years ago, the film, Gattaca, was released. One of the fake ads for the movie is pictured here. Thousands of people responded to the advertisements for the film, thinking it was the real deal.
In the past two weeks, multiple people have sent me the link to a new video, EctoLife: Concept Unveiled for the World’s First Artificial Womb Facility. Some are concerned that this is happening now; comments found online show a significant ...read more
The Ovolution of the Three-Parent Embryo
June 17, 2012 • Posted in Blog
By D. Joy Riley, M.D., M.A.
Executive Director
The Tennessee Center for Bioethics & Culture
The United Kingdom presented the rest of the world with Louise Joy Brown in July, 1978, the first test-tube baby. They convened what became known as the Warnock Committee to advise Parliament regarding the new reproductive technologies: “what policies and safeguards should be applied, including consideration of the social, ethical, and legal implications of these developments, and to make recommendations.” (Warnock, A Question of Life, 4.) The Warnock Committee by a slim margin approved a variety of reproductive adventures, including ...read more 